- Title
- World premier, Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles, California
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- Description
- A nighttime view looking across the street at Fox's Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California during a premier. The building facade is brightly lit, and several colored searchlights point in various directions. Crowds of people stand on either side of the road.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles; Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- The Carthay Circle Theater, built in 1926 and located just off of San Vicente Boulevard near Fairfax, was part of an area developed by J. Harvey McCarthy during the 1920s. McCarthy developed 136 acres just south of Wilshire Boulevard with an emphasis on aesthetics, and thematic elements drawn from California history. When McCarthy encountered difficulties in luring merchants away from Wilshire's Miracle Mile shopping district, he instead built the Carthay Circle Theater, an iconic building with its whitewashed mission revival style architecture, tall bell tower and bright neon sign. The interior featured bronze busts of Native American leaders, photographs of famous actors and actresses, forty-foot paintings of historic scenes, and the curtain in its auditorium was decorated as an homage to the Donner Party. The theater became a prime location for movie premiers, including Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Fantasia," and MGM's "Gone with the Wind." By the 1960s, business was waning due to competition from multi-screen theaters. The Carthay Circle Theater was demolished in 1969.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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